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A Short History Of: BIG Data
A Short History Of: BIG Data
History of
BIG
DATA
1944
Fremont
Rider, Wesleyan
University
2
Librarian, publishes
The Scholar and the
X Future of the
EVERY Research Library.
He estimates that
Facts taken from A Very Short History Of Big Data by Gil Press – Forbes.com
1996
Digital storage
becomes more
cost-effective
VS for storing
data than
paper
Facts taken from A Very Short History Of Big Data by Gil Press – Forbes.com
1997
The term big data is used for
the first time in publication
“Application-controlled demand paging for out-of-
core visualization”
Facts taken from A Very Short History Of Big Data by Gil Press – Forbes.com
1998
400%
Data Traffic
GROWTH RATE OF INTERNET
200%
Voice Traffic
0%
by
2002
“The Size and Growth
Rate of the Internet.”
Facts taken from A Very Short History Of Big Data by Gil Press – Forbes.com
1999
Study finds that in 1999
the world produced
X 250
≈ 1.5
exabytes of unique
information
exabytes of unique
information
For every man, woman, and child
Facts taken from A Very Short History Of Big Data by Gil Press – Forbes.com
2001
Doug
Volume Laney, an
Velocity analyst with
the Meta
Variety Group, coins
the 3
“3D Data V’s
Management:
Controlling Data
Volume, Velocity, and
Variety.”
Facts taken from A Very Short History Of Big Data by Gil Press – Forbes.com
2002
In 2002, digital
information storage
surpassed non-digital
for the first time
Facts taken from A Very Short History Of Big Data by Gil Press – Forbes.com
Database management
is a core competency
of Web 2.0
companies, so much
so that we have
sometimes referred to
these applications as
‘infoware’ rather than Tim O’Reilly -
merely software.” “What is Web 2.0”
Facts taken from A Very Short History Of Big Data by Gil Press – Forbes.com
2011
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